Research Group

Principal Investigator

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Chen Chen | PhD, Associate Professor
Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV)
Department of Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Office: HEC 221
Address: 4328 Scorpius St., Orlando, FL 32816-2365
Email: chen.chen@crcv.ucf.edu

Ph.D. Students


Guangyu Sun
Guangyu Sun
Qucheng Peng
Qucheng Peng
Andong Deng
Andong Deng
Ming Li
Ming Li
Anthony Bilic
Anthony Bilic
Xuechu Yu
Xuechu Yu
Zonglin Lyu
Zonglin Lyu
Yancheng Zhang
Yancheng Zhang
Md Kowsher
Md Kowsher
Yuanhao Zou
Yuanhao Zou
Patrick Kwon
Patrick Kwon
Wenhan Wu
Wenhan Wu
(Co-advising with
Dr. Aidong Lu at UNCC)

Research for Undergraduate Students


  • CRCV REU Program
  • Senior Design Project
  • Publications by undergraduate students:
    • Momal Ijaz, Renato Diaz, Chen Chen, "Multi-modal Transformer for Nurse Activity Recognition"
      The Fifth International Workshop on Computer Vision for Physiological Measurement (CVPM), in conjunction with CVPR 2022. [Paper]
    • Ethan Frakes, Umar Khalid, Chen Chen, "Efficient and consistent zero-shot video generation with diffusion models", Real-Time Image Processing and Deep Learning 2024. Vol. 13034. SPIE, 2024. [Paper]

    Alumni

    Ph.D. Students

    • Umar Khalid, Ph.D. (UCF) – December 2024. Dissertation: Effective and Efficient Use of Diffusion Models for Editing in Computer Vision.
    • Matias Mendieta, Ph.D. (UCF) – August 2024. Dissertation: Efficient and Effective Deep Learning Methods for Computer Vision in Centralized and Distributed Applications. Current: Research Scientist, Apple Inc.
    • Ce Zheng, Ph.D. (UCF) – December 2023. Dissertation: Reconstructing 3D Humans from Visual Data (Outstanding Dissertation Award). Current: Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) [Defense Presentation].
    • Taojiannan Yang, Ph.D. (UCF) – August 2023. Dissertation: Towards Efficient and Effective Representation Learning for Image and Video Understanding. Current: Research Scientist, AWS AI Lab, CA [Defense Presentation].
    • Sijie Zhu, Ph.D. (UCF) – December 2022. Dissertation: Toward Real-World Cross-View Image Geo-Localization (Outstanding Dissertation Award). Current: Research Scientist, Bytedance AI Lab, CA [Defense Presentation].

    Master’s Students

    • Zhaoning Wang, Master in Computer Vision – May 2024.
    • Changlin Li, Master’s in Computer Vision – December 2020, UNCC. Thesis: Object Detection in Aerial Imagery.
    • Sumanta Bhattacharyya, Master’s in Computer Vision – December 2019, UNCC. Thesis: Efficient Unsupervised Monocular Depth Estimation Using Attention Guided Generative Adversarial Network.
    • Talal Alatiah, Master’s in Computer Vision – May 2020, UNCC. Project: Recognizing Exercises and Counting Repetitions in Real Time.